Self Indulgent BotD

[palabravampiress]

My first impression of you was that you were someone to be ignored. Every board has folks who come off as needlessly combative, and you seemed to fit that description. You seemed to delight in not just proving others wrong, but also in employing a tone or style of writing that was exceptionally harsh. That led me to believe that you were a party pooper. Because I come to the Buffy Boards for entertainment purposes, I tend to ignore the party pooper types.

You grew on me, though. It took some time, but it happened. You bring a lot of knowledge and sound reasoning to debates. I began to see that if your posts came off as overly-confident or even arrogant, it was not without just cause. Like others have said, you also showed a softer side that I admired. Basically, I grew to like you and your no-nonsense approach to internet conversation. You "call them like you see them," and I actually find that rather refreshing.



Hmm... maybe you should rename yourself "Mr. Darcy." lol.

 

[Kean]

{Insert really scathing cutting remark here}

I know what you mean, I guess being the geeky kid at school, I remember what it was like to be bullied and picked on(oh my, a break through on Buffy Boards) and what I feel these kids need is some harsh lessons because, darn it they are going to get it BIG time in school they need to learn to stand up for themselves.

The best thying you can do to me on this site is, when I am an ass, tell me to shut the frick up!!!

You realise I have this, you telling us to shut you up as evidence forever more😀...muahahaha

And your right kids to need to be able to stand on their own two feet but is it really our job to teach them that lesson? I find most people come here to get away from all that stuff anyway...life is hard enough without the likes of us making a crappy day crappier.

 

[Lou]

Oh, I've seen it, I just don't care. Maybe because I wasn't here. And there are certainly times in my life I'm not proud of, but I am lucky enough to not have threads to refer people to.

There was a time when I didn't trust anyone. I thought when someone was nice to me they were just out to use me for one thing or another. It stemmed from a VERY dark time in my life and it wasn't pretty. It took a LONG time of seriously looking at myself and how I came across. Thinking about if I died tomorrow what people would say about me and what I WANTED them to say about me. Ever so slowly, I began to come out of it. But, I was a serious *itch for a long time. And it wasn't just average *itchiness. It was hard core.
You could have asked me about things I knew nothing about and I'd still answer like I knew what I was talking about. I could tell you the grass was purple and defend it as if it were fact for DAYS! Even knowing I was wrong. The idea of "OPINION" never fit into my life. There were no opinions, only facts. And my mistrust of others made it impossible to accept their opinions OR facts as anything but a lie.

I don't mind if you USED to be more mean than you are now. I don't mind if you got more mean...except I like your posts now and I'd miss them. Now I LOVE differing opinions. My ideas are WAY out there sometimes and it's always at least a little interesting to hear how other people think. I love a good debate. It doesn't usually work in swaying people's minds, but it does kind of open up a channel for people to understand where other people are coming from and that is what life is all about!

 

[The Chosen]

Bored of the Dead agrees: I think you misunderstood the 'superstar' stuff as me being ironic about an event in my life, though some people really have stupid opinions!!!

Yeah, I know. I just like to draw from my early memories of confusion on these boards. I still couldn't read people well and I'm glad I've finally maybe started to understand you?

 

[Angel's vision]

OH boy, well I can't resist replying, when we first encountered each other on C.O.A we clashed cos you got the wrong end of the stick in regards to my post, I felt you were oversenistive and cocky and a girl, yes I actually thought you were a highly strung girl, then I found that you were a bloke! Anyway there have been times on here when you have made a cutting remark and I felt like shouting Barsteward! You ignore me like the plague unless you feel you need to speak to me, I do too, I enjoy it, let's keep it up. 😉

I still think your cocky and arrogant but you have calmed that down sinse castaway. I still think that dispite the caustic remarks they are funny, and I laugh inspite of myself.

 

[Lyri]

OH boy, well I can't resist replying, when we first encountered each other on C.O.A we clashed cos you got the wrong end of the stick in regards to my post, I felt you were oversenistive and cocky and a girl, yes I actually thought you were a highly strung girl, then I found that you were a bloke!

ooh, i remember that!! i remember laughing my ass off wondering how someone could mistake him for a girl!

 

[Harley]

Sometimes I think your need for attention over shadows what you're really trying to get across to someone.

I think if you realize someone might be able to find a hole in your argument, you try to confuse them in order to distract them away from it (whether intentional or not)

The first thing that attracted me to you was the fact that you didn't hate me when half the people on COA did. And remember when we had the picture posting thread? I PMd aradhus over and over and he'd send me one line of the coversation you guys were having at a time. It drove me nuts.

Sometimes I think you make small details huge and elaborate just to test people's reactions, not because that's actually what you think.

You know how to spell everything I don't...

You have a story from YOUR life for every situation in MY life. At times its helpful, at other times its hard to believe.

I like to argue with you because you like to argue with me.

 

[Summers Blood]

Not sure why I haven't replied in this yet, so here goes.

On first impressions... well Al I liked you. You made me laugh and I actually got what you were going on about half the time. I can't remember ever reading someones opinions and thinking, they get what I'm thinking... until I met you that is!

There are times when I disagree with you, but most of the time I actually agree with you and agree with the way you put your opinion across! lol

It probably helped that when we first met, it was in VH and you, Katie and I became a force to be reckoned with. Especially with our hatred of other dorms and some of their members lol (sorry other dorms.... that's well in the past... well sort of lol)

I class you as one of my internet friends, and I don't have many, especially that I add on facebook and msn.

 

[alexa]

Well I guess I got mixed ideas of you because some posts would be outright nasty, then others would be totally fair and exhibit a way of thinking I would have never thought of. Mostly I just think you're someone who's probably really great to your close friends but rarely gives new people a chance, maybe because you don't want to loose something. Or wait.. I could be just talking about me. 😉
But at least when you say something positive in my direction I know that you really mean it.

 

[freakydorky]

You are a cocky angry man who gets off on putting others down and always feels the need to have the last word. You've made nearly as many enemies as I have and your overall bitchy-ness rivals my own. You told me to be honest, and I am. The above reasons are why I love you as much as I do, because I truly believe that we are somehow the same person, and you're really the only one who will ever be able to honestly understand me.

 

[Black Eye Guy]

I liked you right from the start, you've never offended me, although I never get offended by people on the internet!

Your a very intelligent guy, and you know it, thats not to say it's a bad thing as it just means you have opinions and people on the internet tend to clash when opinions are involved.

You know allot about whatever subject your entering into a discussion on, you wont go into a thread and give something your not entirely sure about which makes you excellent to discuss things with.

Your funny, sarcastic and constantly surprising me with your opinions and things you like, which is cool cuz you never know how to respond, you have this persona of someone who would be mean to newbies but it's quite the opposite, although some may take offense to something you say, a few months later you seam to be good friends with that person, which directly leads to the other things people were saying about you being fiercely loyal to your friends.

I think the way you and Dzh handeled that Jowhunder (Whatever) person was priceless and practically perfect in every way, I think that really shows how you feel about the boards, nothing has ever displayed this place like a family/community thing, with two big brothers running to the rescue at it's defense, as much at those threads.

And you write an awesome fanfic or 2!

 

[Senior Watcher]

honestly, we havent had much communication until we united on facebook.

anyway, so far i think you are a pretty cool dude. i have seen you post your opinions............but you have probably seen me do the same.

thats all. i hope we become friends............but im ok with butting head once in awhile too. ;-)

 

[Angelic Slayer]

Alright, been putting this off because I knew it'd turn into a novel (lol 😉), but here's my story of Alister.

When I first encountered you (back when you were DDLM) my first reaction I think is "wholey crap, stay away from this guy". You kinda struck me as the member who had been here from the start, knew everything about btvs/bb, would shoot you down at a moment's notice and just overall slightly intimidating to the newbie I was 🙂

Then, as I read more of your posts, I began to think you were a jerk lol. Know I've told you this before, not gunna lie! Thought you were far too hard on people and were a bit of a know it all... always had something negative to say! 😉

Then, I don't know how it ended up that way, but we started talking on MSN. At first I was confused about who you were, then I was just surprised you were talking to me. Eventually though we talked more and more and became friends, which was awesome. Talked a lot on messenger (and in VH, lol had some good times!), it was great!

So, like a lot of other people, I really just had to get to know you, I think. Once I did though, no turning back. You're a great guy, not afraid to say what's what and I really respect you for it. Definitely call you a friend and I'm proud to say it 🙂

You can still be a jerk, but wouldn't have it any other way 😉

 

[Hello Cutie]

Well, I've not been here long, but I've read what everyone else has said, and I want to give my two pence worth 🙂

Seems like almost everyone thought you were a rather arrogant shite and extremely cocky, to say the least.
I have to agree with that... the first posts I actually read of yours I just thought 'My God, this person is more opinionated than me, and isn't afraid to show it- I like them'. I didn't dislike you unlike everyone else- I have no problem with arrogant and cocky, infact it makes me laugh. And the fact that I happen to agree with alot of what you say doesn't hurt either.

Infact, I think that even if I don't agree with what you say, the fact that you say exactly what you're thinking is a really good thing- you're clearly not put off by what other people think, and the fact that you welcome confrontation can be a good thing to- it makes things alot more interesting here, and it gives BB a great dynamic- it's nice to see there's always someone around to shake things up a bit.

Also, is it wrong that I'm looking forward to my first real disagreement with you? I can see sparks flying!
[I think that if I ever see/hear someone say 'simple fact' ever again, I'm going to start laughing my arse off, after the thing with PhenixRising!]

All this is probably completely unhelpful considering I've been here hardly any time at all, but I just wanted to join in- and who can blame me, with someone as 'popular' as you! 🙂

 

[Mesektet Ra]

Let me think here...

Okay, first off, I don't necessarily think you're a bad guy. Like I'm sure you've thought of me, I haven't really given much thought to you. I know you're a big force around here and Lyri loves you, which is fine by me.

From your posts, the thing I've noticed the most is your inability to take to other people's opinions. You have to be right, all the time. While you're educated and you know what you're talking about more often than not, there are a couple issues that I've noticed are based on opinion rather than fact and you've smacked people down for having a different opinion than you. I don't have a problem with you being smart and flaunting it - shit, rub in everyone's faces for all I give a damn. I just don't think that should apply for opinion-based issues.

On a good note [because I really do have a good note, honest], I think some of the stuff you say is utter HILARITY. You smack people down like none other. I love to see people get treated when they deserve it. 🙂

 

[randiann]

You are a horrible horrible "bar steward" whatever wierd England-English thing that means, and I hate your guts you brat.

You know I love ya even if you never send me messages back! Liked you ever since CoA like...3-4 years ago or so? Anywhoo, you are ok with me even though you do have a knack for being really mean to other people, always been nice to me!

 

[eunsoma]

well, Al. Let me be honest here - cuz I know you respect honesty... When I first met you on CoA (back in the day or what), I thought - this guy's a bit of a prick. I can't remember what the issue was, but I had an opinion and you shut me down completely - like you do lol...
After that, with me being all high and mighty at 15 at the time, I got into a bit of a tiff with you, but in the end, I think both of us agreed that it wasn't worth it.
Anyway, soon after you referred me to BB, and pretty much guided me thru everything here - so thanks a lot. I have to admit, you won me over completely with you Fanfic - that was the greatest thing I've ever read...
Now, I come on here and read your posts, and I swear that if ever I'm down, you crack me up completely. 😉
forgot to include this - I think you are one of the most intelligent people I know, and you always have an opinion which you can readily justify.